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| 1808 |
| | | Napoleon transfers his brother Joseph Bonaparte from the throne of Naples to that of Spain | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Napoleon gives the throne of Naples, vacated by his brother Joseph, to Joachim Murat | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The German-born US entrepreneur John Jacob Astor establishes the American Fur Company | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Louis-Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, is born in Paris, the son of Napoleon's brother Louis and of Josephine's daughter Hortense | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa set up a permanent base in Indiana, calling it Prophetstown | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The French capture of Madrid provokes a British response and the resulting Peninsular War | |
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| 1808 |
| | | An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family and their entourage arrive in Rio de Janeiro | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Russia, after winning much of Finland from Sweden during the previous century, invades again in 1808 | |
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| 1808 |
| | | A British army under Arthur Wellesley (later duke of Wellington) defeats the French at Vimeiro, near Lisbon | |
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